3. THE PRES­I­DENT IS MISS­ING, by Bill Clin­ton and James Pat­ter­son. (Lit­tle, Brown and Knopf) Pres­i­dent Jonathan Dun­can, a Gulf War vet­eran and wid­ower, takes on adversaries at home and abroad. (15)

4. NOT QUITE OVER YOU, by Su­san Mallery. (HQN) The fourth book in the Hap­pily Inc. se­ries. Sil­ver Tes­dal must re­veal a se­cret she has been keep­ing from Drew Lo­vato. (1)

5. THE NEXT PER­SON YOU MEET IN HEAVEN, by Mitch Al­bom. (Harper) The se­quel to “The Five Peo­ple You Meet in Heaven” fol­lows An­nie on her heav­enly jour­ney. (3)

6. HOLY GHOST, by John Sand­ford. (Put­nam) Vir­gil Flow­ers in­ves­ti­gates shoot­ings in a Min­nesota town fol­low­ing an at­tempt to re­vive its ail­ing econ­omy. (3)

7. A SPARK OF LIGHT, by Jodi Pi­coult. (Bal­lan­tine) The lives of pa­tients, doc­tors and ac­tivists in­ter­sect when a gun­man holds them hostage in a woman’s health cen­ter in Mis­sis­sippi. (4)

8. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, by Delia Owens. (Put­nam) In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who sur­vived alone in the marsh be­comes a mur­der sus­pect. (7)

9. UN­SHEL­TERED, by Bar­bara King­solver. (Harper) In­ter­twined sto­ries of two fam­i­lies who live in dif­fer­ent cen­turies on the same street cor­ner in Vineland, New Jer­sey. (2)

10. AM­BUSH, by James Pat­ter­son and James O. Born. (Lit­tle, Brown) Michael Ben­nett dis­cov­ers that an as­sas­sin is tar­get­ing him and his fam­ily. (3)

11. THE TAT­TOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, by Heather Mor­ris. (Harper) A con­cen­tra­tion camp de­tainee tasked with per­ma­nently mark­ing fel­low pris­on­ers falls in love with one of them. (8)

12. VENDETTA, by Iris Jo­hansen. (St. Martin’s) An at­trac­tion de­vel­ops be­tween Jude Bran­don and Rachel Ven­able as they take on the head of a ter­ror­ist group. (1)

13. LOOSE ENDS, by Kris­ten Ash­ley. (Kris­ten Ash­ley) An an­thol­ogy of three short sto­ries and two novel­las. (1)